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That's very cool but it's still difficult to tell which part of the music is coming from which track. I personally would find it very helpful if mousing over a circle of a certain color would make all of the other tracks much quieter. That would make it a bit easier to understand than just seeing the visual feedback.

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I kind of had the reverse reaction. I'm familiar enough with the Daft Punk corpus that I could easily tell where each piece came from and whatnot. However, while the timeline was pretty straightforward, I had difficulty connecting the center visualisation with the music. I understand that there's a ring for each track and... not much else. I don't suppose anybody could clarify that for me?

My take on it: volume = thickness; frequency = position around the ring, lowest to highest going clockwise, starting at the bottom.

It seems the volume is relative to the track's volume though, so some are quieter than they look like they would be. But I could be mis-hearing that part.

Agreed. Quite interesting first step. I'd bet a little more interactive version would be a lot of fun to play around with and a great iteration for something like this.

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